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The works of William Bridge, sometime fellow of Emmanuel College in Cambridge, now preacher…The vvorks of William Bridge, sometime fellow of Emmanuel Colledge in Cambridge, now preacher…
The works of William Bridge, sometime fellow of Emmanuel College in Cambridge, now preacher of the Word of God at Yarmouth. The third volume. [sic] Viz. 1. The spiritual life, and in-being of Christ in all believers. 2. The woman of Canaan.The vvorks of William Bridge, sometime fellow of Emmanuel Colledge in Cambridge, now preacher of the Word of God at Yarmouth. The third volumn. [sic] Viz. 1. The spiritual life, and in-being of Christ in all believers. 2. The woman of Canaan.
London: printed by Peter Cole, 1649
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Answ. Stay a little, You read in Scripture concerning Jacob ⟨p. 41⟩and Esau: 'tis said, That the Elder shall serve the Younger. 1That is (says Luther) in a spiritual way: the Elder, the Law, shall serve the Younger, the Gospel: and the Elder Sin, shall serve the Younger Grace. Now, have your former Legal-breakings, made you more for to prize Grace? and to prize Christ? and to prize Free-remission, and Justification by faith alone? Here then, the Elder does serve the Younger. And what though Legal-breakings were first, and were the Elder in your heart, yet so long as the Elder does serve the Younger, thou hast no reason to be discouraged in this respect.
Answ. Stay a little, You read in Scripture concerning Jacob ⟨p. 41⟩and Esau: 'tis said, That the Elder shall serve the Younger. 1That is (saies Luther) in a spiritual way: the Elder, the Law, shall serve the Younger, the Gospel: and the Elder Sin, shall serve the Younger Grace. Now, have your former Legal-breakings, made you more for to prize Grace? and to prize Christ? and to prize Free-remission, and Justification by faith alone? Here then, the Elder does serve the Younger. And what though Legal-breakings were first, and were the Elder in your heart, yet so long as the Elder does serve the Younger, thou hast no reason to be discouraged in this respect.
Object. 2 I fear that my Obedience and my Holiness is not right; because it is so little, and so scant; Free-remission the fountain of all our Holiness, that is a full Fountain: and if my Holiness were a stream from that Fountain, it would be more full and more abundant: The Jews, they knew little of this Truth, Justification by faith alone, and yet they were Holy; David holy, and Moses holy, and Josiah holy: is this the fountain of all our Grace, and of all our Holiness, Free-remission and Justification by faith alone? Then the more discovery there is of this, the more Holy we should be: but alas, I find my Holiness, and my Obedience so scant, and little, that I am afraid it can never come from so full a fountain as this is.